How Worried Should Investors Be About Bloomin Brands Inc (BLMN)

Bloomin Brands Inc (NASDAQ:BLMN) does about 1.31M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1181299 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 2.31B USD. Its current market price is $26.51, marking a decrease of -1.71% compared to the previous close of $26.97. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $30.12 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $22.03.

Bloomin Brands Inc (BLMN) has a 20-day trading average at $27.86 and the current price is -12.00% off the 52-week high compared with 20.34% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $27.72 and its 200-day simple moving average is $26.10. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.05%, which increases to 2.30% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 37.67 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $29.67, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 10.65% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 23, 2024 when JP Morgan downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $26. Raymond James also downgraded the stock to “Outperform” from Strong Buy on November 06, 2023 at a price target of $29-$28. Deutsche Bank initiated its price target at $25.

Bloomin Brands Inc (BLMN) stock is down -1.49% over the week and -8.17% over the past month. Its price is -5.83% year-to-date and 6.64% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 10.65 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 10.62% and return on equity of 72.71%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 10.46 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 9.44. The beta has a value of 2.03. Price to book ratio is 5.64 and price to sales ratio is 0.49.